Valentine's Day, with Ninjas!

On Valentine's Day we went to an amazing restaurant called Ninja Akasaka. To get to our table we had to go through a narrow maze of tunnels, hidden doors and over a secret draw bridge. Our table was in a small, private concrete room with a single light overhead. It felt like an interrogation room, save for the glow in the dark crickets painted on the walls. Everyone at the restaurant was dressed as a ninja, and we even got an amazing ninja magic show, where we had to use the secret ninja words "nin-nin" to make the magic happen.

The food was the best I had in Japan, and the presentation was phenomenal. My grapefruit snow crab appetizer came on a hollowed out grapefruit with leaves and snow crab on top. The grapefruit arrived at our table with a massive sword through it, and when I pulled it out, smoke started to come out of the cuts. The grapefruit was filled with dry ice (a relatively simple idea), but the effect was amazing.

When we left the restaurant our ninja ran out after us, yelling. When we turned around he unrolled a "come back soon" scroll. He was all dressed in black and it was snowing massive white snowflakes, so it looked really funny. This awesome dining experience happened really early during our stay, and it will definitely be hard to beat.